Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-07-23
JOHN ANDREW SnULzE
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M m0 WoS clergyman OF the d0rmsf
&XmH>orsn church, and had several congrcga
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II oooeo VS. under the iTfiesitalo care oi
~ uncie, Dr. Henry Muhlsnterg. He com.
Il oeuesd bis preparstiou for college In York
IA S,nnsv nnstar ala tnstructjon Of the Ksv
n ~. Hs,shc,,ner. he rs,siye,i q tpished
g e3~s.issI eIuc.tjoo I'm the CITY ot New York,
d. tSSel a1rervards st,Itjied there with his uncle,
NJ KupEo. = celebrated divine oi that day.
n l7d6 - vss nj jttei ss a uembsr of the
IL eSsr"Sn Luthersn synod. and WAS shortly
u S1lorwards Or,iair esi q minister Ia that
= eSusch. For period of six years he cfiici.
4 cd - pastor Of several congregations In
Gorks ru,,rntv and was estaa,ne,i and Ioysd
- an who knew him,
IN 1907 4 rheumatic affection from which
- had long suffered Obliged him to suspend
n lsbors in the ministry, and two years
leler. finding no itpproye,neut i'm his cOpdi.
lion. ne WAS induced tn seek another occupa
ton. He accordingly entered upun mercan.
OIe business in the village of Myerstown
(thcn DAuphin country. In which he CON
Sinued for several wears, sccutnulstlpg a
small fortune
In 1906 he WAS elected a member of the
House OF Represeutntiyes Of Penn,ylyanis.
end was rs elected for the two succeedinS
yeara he declined a fourth term, The iour'
malls shOVg that he made an active and atfi .
Ctsnt memter. The attention. of Governor
Snyder was attracted to MIN i'm lsI3. and he
appointed him surveyor general Of the
State but he declined. He then tendere,i
him the pOsitioD of register RECORDER pro-
thonolsry, clerk of the orpbnns' court and
clerk In the sessions court of Lebanon coun.
", which he accepted, lie served efficiently
until the close OF GOV Snyder,s term, when
he Wss commissioned by Gov Eindlav In
1921, much against the wishes of his iriends
he resigned, and in October of that wear he
was elected to represent Lebanon county in
the lower house ot the leg isIsture. The fol.
DsupSin and l,eIanon coupties bv = large
majority.
Before he had been in tbe Sens,e a va~r ba
was nominated for governor Inv tbs Damoe
Gratis, who then called themselves Rspubl,.
caus, and WAS declared elected bv a msioritv
Of about 26, 600 over Andrew Gregg. F.1erai.
lat In 1876 he WAS "a, elected ,riihou, racov-
nized opposition, RECEIVING nearly ~ do
votes out of Is O,U polled. His onrs,nept wss
John Sergeant. 1t was during his admins
mept was commenced, and If his prudent
and cautious Recommendations had been fol.
lowed by the leg islsture To finish one line of
canal before com ,uepcipr another. the COM
mOnweaith would have been saved from a
large portion OF the debt ~ hjcb aitervar,,s
Weirhesi 80 heavily upOn her citizena
To Governor Shuize belongs the cre,,it
which in usually accorded to his successor of
having been the first TO auyn,ate a general
system of education, In his msssape OF
lsc,S he advocated the system in strong Ian
gusRe Few governors have left the execu
i've chair with as large share of parsonal
popularity md carving with them into re.
tirement less personal and political snimos-
ity towards them than did the suhj. ct of
this ttice. Conservative in all his views |
honest aud straig ghtor ward in all his acts
he comu anded the onfidence of the people
and never abused il His WA. not "A brilliant
hut q judicious, faithful and useful care ar
Unable to agree with all the measure of hi>
party, he had the integ rity and the ndepend.
enct, To array himsel, against nnythinv ha
COnruf L.toSuPWfCnp, He WAS e,iucnte, in
tknU[lerron,an school OF politics, and WAS
ther eiore IN feeling and sentiment An old
school Republican. He favored ali the con.
seryatiys Rspub,,cAn measures. of which
Jtf,erscr, Manson and Monroe hnd been the
ch.mpiops WIN his old marty friends he
came to differ howsyer on thS uuestion oS
hOme pr0tection. and after h is retirement
from rtiics he b,.,ams sf,i,,s,sd win ths
Anti Masonic marty in sentiment.
AU., hi. r.,ire,van, from ntfca a., ,soa ho
ve,uoyed To J,vcon,inv cn,intv and pov ,a
sins ,he perioa in his history when the clos.
inc wears of bis lite were saddsnad bv Snan
cisi and domestic troubled. In IS3i be nuI-
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